Our solar system is moving through a plasma cloud. This is effecting the earth's core and grid. Add to it the current solar activity and there is the possibilty of large scale earth changes/volcanic activity. The next few days are critical.

Well about that plasma thing it will effect some how in our magnetig field and from there it will effect that volcanic activity but i dont think much.

It looks like to me that earths magnetic positosn switch their place and that will cause really huge movements in earth plates. That makes volcanoes also active. I try investing that theory more when i got time.

Commenting on the paper, Prof David Pyle, a volcanologist from Oxford University said: "This new work on Santorini sheds new light on what happens in the lead-up to the rare catastrophic eruptions, like the Bronze Age 'Minoan' eruption, which happen every 20,000 years or so.

"The new evidence from mineral grains appears to strengthen the idea, which has been developing in recent years, that large magma systems appear to awaken from long periods of repose only shortly (months, years or decades) prior to eruption.

"That is, the magma which eventually erupts appears to rise into position, in the top few kilometres of the crust, only a short time before the eruption begins."

However, he said the next problem was to try to understand what was causing this accelerated build up of magma.

"The challenge for volcanologists is to understand what it is that causes these bursts of melt movement; to understand where the melts have come from, and to be able to recognise their signals before an eruption begins.

Commenting on the paper, Prof David Pyle, a volcanologist from Oxford University said: "This new work on Santorini sheds new light on what happens in the lead-up to the rare catastrophic eruptions, like the Bronze Age 'Minoan' eruption, which happen every 20,000 years or so.

"The new evidence from mineral grains appears to strengthen the idea, which has been developing in recent years, that large magma systems appear to awaken from long periods of repose only shortly (months, years or decades) prior to eruption.

"That is, the magma which eventually erupts appears to rise into position, in the top few kilometres of the crust, only a short time before the eruption begins."

However, he said the next problem was to try to understand what was causing this accelerated build up of magma.

"The challenge for volcanologists is to understand what it is that causes these bursts of melt movement; to understand where the melts have come from, and to be able to recognise their signals before an eruption begins.

It's clear here that magma is on the moove... In my oppinion from this point the activity can rapidly rise untill it erupt or calm down for little time. Historically how this volcano activity usually evolves?

Quakes SW of Santo seem quite widely scattered, mostly shallow with a few deeper. Those beneath Nea Kameni recently, and Koloumbo a couple of years back are more concentrated. Suggests to me that this recent swarm is tectonic, though it seems reasonable to assume they will give NK and K's magma chambers a bit of a shaking. Past volcanic activity has progressed NE from Christianos through Akrotiri, pre-Kameni to Koloumbo and beyond. Is it likely that a volcano is in the making 20Km or so SW of Christianos? I note a couple of 3+ near Amorgos, beyond the little island of Anhydra - can't be far from the location of the first of the devastating quakes in 1956. One friend says she has felt nothing, but her cats and neighbours have (Karterados), while another says he is getting used to the walls creaking and the cupboards rattling (Kamari). Thanks for BBC link to Nature mag. I'm off to buy it in the morning.

As you can see from that text santorini dont need huge island middel of it when there is possibility really big eruption. And like text say magma and ash are really huge danger but if it generates same time tsunami it is out of scale. It destroyes evrything around aigean sea.